Taboo: Sex

Synopsis:
What is sex, why is it taboo? Countries all around the world have different views, from conservative views and saving themselves for marriage, all the way to fathers building 'love huts' for their daughters as young as 9-13. We look at father as safe guards, protecting their sons and daughters virginity, not promoters.In Cambodia, members of the Kreung tribe in the northeast of the country believe that girls can be empowered by spending the night with different members of the opposite sex. The Love Huts even have condom. Although they are usually closed off from the world, Nang Chan, a 17-year-old girl who now lives in her love hut instead of her parent's house, believes they offer her, and other girls like her, a sense of empowerment. There is a surprising low amount of rapes and domestic violence. It is, in fact rare. A girl invites them to her hut, if she has intentions for sexual intercourse then she learns about his past. If he is a lazy ignorant boy then she will not. But if the boy is strong, hardworking, and handsome, then she will. As you can imagine they marry young, although for life.

Analysis:
Wow, I don't quite believe what I just found out. I actually found out a while ago while I was watching Taboo, but just rereading it is crazy. How can a father just let his daughter have sex, and actually build a house for her to do that!?! I mean I understand having parents tell their kids not to have sex in their house, because it's a bit disrespectful, but going as far as to build one is just insane. I can't agrue with the fact that there is almost no rape or violence, but how can sex just be treated with almost disrespect? Whether or not you are for or against sex before marriage, don't you think it should be some special. At the very least!




http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/taboo/videos/cambodian-love-huts/ 
http://newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/07/17/223-Cambodian-fathers-build-sex-huts-for-teenage-daughters.html

Kids or Pets??

Synopsis:
If a child was tied to a pole, what would you do? On ABC New "What Would You Do?" they recreated an event mother dragged her leashed toddler on the floor through a store in Georgia, created an uproar when it was posted on the internet and tied her to a pole, child actresses played as little kids whose parents tied to a pole. Shockingly what would people did was gawked at them, but walked away. Another man to out his phone and took a picture, when asked why he didn't do anything, he simply said "It's not my place, it's not my business." A woman, who will remain unnamed, walked by the "mother" of the child, told her that they were "so unruly". The woman just replied "I've never seen anybody tie up children like dogs" before she continued on her way.
But what the about kids on a leash in the malls, or restaurants? It's either on their wrist, or even better, the backpack kind. The blogger wrote "The truth is, I do have good kids that don’t act up in public. They’re teenagers now, but even when they were little, they did what they were asked and the worst thing they ever did in public was whimper." But then she has a child, the one that we see always on a leash, although she has not bough one she has certainly thought about it on numerous occasions.

Analysis:
I see no problem with a child on a leash, I do, however see a problem when a parent attaches their child attached to a pole like some kind of dog! There's a difference between making sure you're child doesn't get lost and run in the street and tie them to something to you can shop alone. If I were to be on the show, "What Would You Do?" I would think I would march right up to that woman and tell her off. No, I'm not a mother, but I have helped raise 5 kids, and I know how insane they can become. But I would never, no matter what, tie them to something and have people stare at hem, maybe some with disgrace! Woman like this make a bad name for having a child on a leash, there are HUMAINE ways to have one.


http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/kids-put-leash-tied-pole-treated-dogs/story?id=12163425
http://www.blogher.com/crosspost-put-your-kid-leash

Transgender and Suicide

*I use apostrophes around the he and his not to make fun of Cameron, but because I want to make it clear that just because you were born a girl doesn't mean you were meant to.

Synopsis:
It's always sad when someone dies, even more when a child passes. But when a child dies because of suicide its just terrible. A 10 year old 'boy' killed 'himself' after telling 'his' mother that 'he' was a girl. 'His' mother, Kelly McWilliams, found her 'son' hanging, with a black leather belt around 'his' neck, in 'his' half-sister's bedroom at the family home in Montrose Avenue, Intake, Doncaster.'His' mother said that she has bought her 'son' girls underwear to wear in private, but it wasn't enough for Cameron McWilliams who asked to wear make-up days before 'he' died. 'He' has been teased after 'he' was found wearing 'his' half-sister's underwear. 'He enjoyed 'normal' activities that are often played by girls of that age and has told 'his' mother a number of times that 'he' was a GIRL. Kelly thought that 'he' was just curious or confused.

Analysis:
There are many stories of transgender children who believe that they were born in the wrong body, often trying to cut off the defining genitals. A child as young as 3, can define themselves as the other gender. I believe after researching and talking t multiple doctors that yes, a child can be born into the wrong body. When a fetus is being developed the brain can develop n a much different way than the body, which causes the feeling of being trapped. Imagine, waking up in the opposite sexes body having the same thoughts and likes as the day before. You'd feel lost, I know that I would. I think that when a child goes to the point of trying to make him a girl or make her a boy that it is not a phase, it is not something to be taken lightly. There are a lot of people who think that it's wrong, but driving a child to extremes, or even suicide, by MAKING them be who they are not is a lot worse than letting them be who they are and who they want to believe.

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/gender-torment-of-10-year-old-cameron-1-233708

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-514627/Boy-10-hangs-telling-mother-I-want-girl.html